Clinic 'forgot' baby due to summer holidays
Published: 6 Apr 11 09:09 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/33038/20110406/
A 10-month-old baby suffering from malnutrition was hospitalised after Swedish healthcare workers failed to follow up on the case due to the onset of the summer holiday season.
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A specialist was called in and determined that the child was suffering from malnutrition, causing it to lose weight.
The local clinic informed the family that it needed to adjust the child's diet, promising to follow up with special counseling sessions and additional weight controls.
But the additional measures never took place in part because the clinic was unstaffed during the summer holiday period and no one was assigned to follow up on the baby's condition.
A home visit was finally carried out by a nurse from the clinic in September 2010, by which time the infant was ten months old.
After further tests were carried out six days later, the decision was taken to rush the child to the paediatric ward of a nearby hospital, where it received care for the next two weeks.
The same day the child was hospitalised, the incident was reported to Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).
In its review of the incident, the agency found it "remarkable that no further report was made to others at the paediatric clinic to follow the growth curve during the holiday period".
Nevertheless, the health board refrained from any formal reprimand, finding that the clinic had already taken appropriate measures to ensure a similar incident wouldn't happen again.
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Someone gets over due to holiday/weekend.
No one gets fired, even disciplined, for this idiocy.
Sweden will never change.
It would be very,very rare indeed for a dedicated carer not to be deeply shocked by this error.
In many western countries, you would not have even read about this case at all and everything would have been managed internally, with even less care.
Stop blaming Sweden for what is actually very human and common behavior...
- There is a health care system open to everyone for free (unlike many countries where clinics are not accessible)
- Mistakes are reported
- The media are free to report these mistakes
- Most mistakes does not lead to death
Very bad to be in such a place I agree but I would like to know where these places are where no stupid people exist and no mistakes are made?
In the case of a clinic, it is unforgivable to not put measures in place to cover for "it's July" when everyone knows July happens EVERY YEAR. This WAS preventable.
PS
Same situation in France where some companies actually close for all of August and employees are forced to take their holidays during high season even if they do not want to.
Typical Swedish bashing when it shouldn't be the government that is getting bashed.
What hell were the parents doing not feeding their kid enough food.
the parents should be getting trouble.
Yes the clinic should have followed up faster than they did.
But the bad thing about this is the parents were starving their child that they supposedly loved and cared about.
Only in Sweden have i seen people more sickened about health care not following up and less sickened that parents could starve their child.
Typical Swedish is they were probably starving their kid so the kid would be super skinny.
I am with bocale1 in asking you to provide hard statistical facts instead of disgruntled innuendo.
#South African_in_Sweden makes some very valid points (although the health service is not entirely free for everyone).
"...had already taken appropriate measures to ensure a similar incident wouldn't happen again." seems to take adequate preventative care.
The fact remains, in my humble opinion, that standards are very high in Sweden and when on the rare occasion it happens that a breach of those standards occurs, much is done to try and ensure it cannot happen again.
It is good for folks to complain in order that these high standards can be further improved. The remakable thing is that in Sweden that such complaints are actually taken notice of! For me, that speaks highly of the Swedish standards.